CHAPTER 44 ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD Soke Miang Chng, Hortensia Alvarez, Georges Rodesch, Pierre Lasjaunias An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) consists of one or more arteriovenous shunts,…
CHAPTER 9 THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE (PROLONGED POSTCOMA UNRESPONSIVENESS) AND POSTHYPOXIC BRAIN INJURY Bruce Day Prolonged survival in a vegetative state is one of the most harrowing events encountered in…
CHAPTER 5 HIGHER VISUOPERCEPTUAL DISORDERS AND DISORDERS OF SPATIAL COGNITION Zoë Terpening, John D.G. Watson At least one third of the primate brain is devoted to visual perception and visual…
CHAPTER 60 OTHER SECONDARY HEADACHE DISORDERS Todd J. Schwedt, David W. Dodick Although most patients who present to a physician with the chief complaint of headache have primary headache disorders,…
CHAPTER 50 CLINICAL SPECTRUM Michel Baulac The clinical spectrum of epilepsy is vast. In terms of symptomatology, the expression of epileptic seizures is very diverse and depends on the function…
CHAPTER 91 BACTERIAL MENINGITIS John E. Greenlee Meningitis has long been known as a clinical disorder. Unequivocal descriptions of meningitis date to the seventeenth century,1 and tuberculous meningitis and syphilitic…
CHAPTER 4 DISORDERS OF MEMORY Peter J. Nestor DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY Declarative and Nondeclarative Memory In general, when patients speak of memory complaints, they are referring to the recollection of…
CHAPTER 68 INHERITED ATAXIAS Nathaniel Robb Whaley, Ryan J. Uitti The inherited ataxias are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative syndromes with a vast array of clinical signs and symptoms, both…
CHAPTER 22 GENETIC CAUSES OF BLINDNESS John B. Kerrison, Nancy J. Newman The study of genetic diseases offers an opportunity to understand the pathophysiology at the molecular level. Identification of…
CHAPTER 72 PARKINSON PLUS DISORDERS Werner Poewe, Gregor K. Wenning The term parkinson plus disorders has been coined to embrace a heterogeneous group of movement disorders with prominent signs of…
